The City and the Architecture of Change
The Work and Radical Visions of Cedric Price
Tanja Herdt

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British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003) had a lifelong fascination with the mechanization of society and its effect on people’s lives. In the 1960s and ’70s, Price began to look for answers to some of the pressing problems he saw in society in the tenets of architecture and design. The City and the Architecture of Change affords a glimpse into the mind of this highly creative and forwardthinking architect.

Contemporary Architecture, Landscape / Urbanism
Description
With The City and the Architecture of Change, Tanja Herdt offers the first comprehensive look back at the life and work of Price. Based on extensive research, including previously unpublished materials, Herdt provides a thorough account of Price’s key architectural concepts and visions, and then analyzes his perspectives on the city as a system, the influence of products and contemporary culture on architecture, and the role of science and technology in architecture and design. Apart from providing new insights into Price’s well-known projects, such as Fun Palace and Potteries Thinkbelt, Herdt also brings to light many lesser-known works from the 1970s, like McAppy and The Generator. She concludes by refuting the common perception of Cedric Price as an “anti-architect”. Richly illustrated with plans and photographs, many of which have never been published before.
Author

Tanja Herdt is an architect who works as an urban designer and consultant in Switzerland and lectures at Technical University of Munich. She has obtained her PhD with a dissertation on Cedric Price.

Notes

91 color, 9 b/w 

260 pages, 100 illustrations
Paperback, 17x24 cm
English
Park Books, 1st edition 2017
ISBN 9783038600459